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Diverse, it's incredibly important that we have teachers of color teaching our students, both black and white students and latino students and so in all of those cases, we see a mismatch between the kind of ways in which we're supporting teachers and what children really need. >> can this be fixed by presidential candidates? this is essentially a state problem. >> so, there's two things. one is the fact that only about 10% of federal education funding across the country is really federal funding and so really what we want to think about is how the federal government can incentivize state and l...

Of our students and many more of our young, black boys are successful. and our graduation rates have to go up dramatically. our dropout rates have to go down. to get there, i'm convinced we have to have more men of color teaching, being role models, being mentors and doing it not just at the high school, but at the elementary grades. and when i ran the chicago public schools, you know, we had 600 schools, visited almost every single one of them. and i would go to entire elementary schools and not see one black man. the fact is, is that less than 2% of our teachers nationally are black males. s...